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Mount Carmel Health System

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 8, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

836

Confidence

68%

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Mount Carmel Health System reported to HHS on 2017-12-08 an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 836 individuals. Breached information located on Email. An employee erroneously sent an email to post-bariatric patients identifying the entire list to all other patients, exposing demographic information.

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HIPAA clock✓ HHS notified

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

⚠ No discovery dateThe OCR public portal omits the discovery date, so the 60-day notification clock cannot be evaluated from this source — only that the filing was submitted.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Dec 8, 2017

Filed

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No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed836 affectedView incident

Name: Mount Carmel Health System
norm: mount carmel health system
Industry: Health Care Services

Name: Mount Carmel Health System
norm: mount carmel health system
Industry: Healthcaresource default

Discovered: Not extracted — the OCR public portal omits it
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 836nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)PHI
HHS breach type: Unauthorized access or disclosure
Where the data lived: Email
Covered-entity type: Healthcare provider
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
Threat actor: Internal
Regulator citations: Provided breach notification to HHSOCR investigation conductedOCR obtained documented assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions

During the incident: Reeducated the employee responsible for the breach
Revised its policy regarding electronic communications with patients
Recalled emails sent to internal recipients that contained the email addresses
Updated its Breach Notification Rule policy
Trained staff
Changes made: Revised its policy regarding electronic communications with patients (highlighting that e-mails sent to individuals external to the CE must be encrypted)
Updated its Breach Notification Rule policy
Trained staff
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: HHS notified
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
HIPAA
Discovered: not extracted
→ Notified: not extracted
— regulatory submission HHS notified

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
HIPAA	Discovered: not extracted → Notified: not extracted	—	regulatory submission	HHS notified

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
Filed at: Dec 8, 2017
Raw hash: 14cc1e4fb649b0dcd7faa8b9e7c8d8bdd7b6bca968190bcff15436017864b040

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Reporting entityMount Carmel Health System

Victim entityMount Carmel Health System

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseReeducated the employee responsible for the breach

ComplianceHHS notified

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceocrportal.hhs.gov

Source filing